The Fringe world just got a lot bigger
Well, if Fringe hadn’t already been renewed for a second season, that would go down as one of the most annoying season finales in history. I figured out Walter’s secret from Peter about halfway through, but it’s still a great development for both characters. As for Olivia, I have a lot of questions about how she wound up where she was and what William Bell is capable of, but those can wait until the fall.
I like how they closed the chapter on the Jones threat of Season One while at the same time busting wide open the future potential of the series. We didn’t get any further information as to what the “threat” is that William and Walter were trying to prepare for by experimenting on the kids, but I think we’re in for some fun come round two.
Is Fringe really about alternate realities?
Or is that just my inner Sliders fanboy talking? If you caught the last episode of Fringe, you know what I’m talking about. If you didn’t, why are you reading an article about it a couple of days later? Go watch it. It’s available online even right here. No excuses!
Things are really heating up on the show now, and Walter and Olivia are right at the center of it. I even loved it when Peter showed just how much like his father he can become when he converted a gift he’d been making for his father into a way to get soundwaves off of melted glass. If that’s not psuedo-science at its best, I don’t know what is.
Fringe – Now why didn’t I make that connection?
First of all, Fox should have known American Idol would run over one hour with eight contestants. It took them an hour and twenty minutes to get through nine. I guess they didn’t want to subject us to another Osbournes debacle. But still, for those of us who DVR Fringe, they left us on a pretty big climactic moment. And while Adam Lambert sometimes looks and sounds like he could be a “Fringe” case, it’s still ridiculous.
So I had to wait to watch the ending online, at which point I slapped myself in the forehead and asked myself why I didn’t realize what was going on sooner. Oh, and speaking of American Idol, for all you “Observer” watchers, did you notice him there? Maybe Adam really is a “Fringe” case.
Speculation on Fringe’s Walter Bishop and the ZFT manuscript
The character of Walter Bishop has been pretty much carrying this show since the outset, hasn’t he? Even when Olivia bored me and I was disgusted by the various diseases and mutations wreaking havoc on their victims, I would still tune in to Fringe to see what gems we would get from good old Walter.
More importantly though, Walter is a mystery to us still, and now we’ve been given another piece of the jigsaw puzzle that is his past. Is it just one of those random blob-shaped middle pieces that are pretty much useless until all the rest are in place, or is it a corner piece that is going to help lay the foundation for everything else yet to come? I’m going with the latter, as the look on Walter’s face after he typed that Y on the typewriter was worth a million words.
Fringe – The final chapter on John Scott?
As much as I’ve grown to enjoy all kinds of different aspects of the show Fringe, including the growing conspiracy and the mysteries surrounding Massive Dynamic, for me the best sequences we’ve had so far are when Olivia goes into the tank and has her encounters with the memories of her former partner and lover John Scott. Not only do we learn that she apparently always wears black underwear and bras, but we’ve learned so much about John and his connections to Olivia.
Plus, her interactions with John in this realm have thus far been the only things that Walter has been completely baffled by. While Walter insists that John cannot see and hear Olivia in these memory-walks. She’s just observing these memories, and as they are just replays of what already happened, how could the John in those moments see her? It makes sense. Only he does. And Mark Valley sells those little eye shifts brilliantly. It’s freaky as hell when he looks directly at her.
See Jane Clack – The Observer, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and the Fox News girls
Fox
This week, my brain clacked about The Observer, Madonna the hypocrite, and so much more. See if you agree with my thoughts:
The Observer is a stroke of genius. Not only are viewers tuning into Fringe every week to catch a glimpse of him, they’re recording the show and playing it back to find him (note: he was in the German airport in this week’s episode). My son actually text’d me from school on Wednesday, because he and his buddies were talking about Fringe. Remember the line in this week’s episode, “Where does the gentleman live?” My son thinks The Observer is the gentleman, and he lives in Little Hill. If only we knew what or where Little Hill is. Some place deep in the earth’s core, perhaps?
The girls on Fox News are all cute, blonde and skinny. Why is this? I have some theories: 1) It’s in Bill O’Reilly’s contract; 2) Because the network is named Fox, all the women have to BE foxes; and 3) The girls actually come in plump, brunette models, but are given magic makeovers that turn them into skinny blondes (Criss Angel on staff, perhaps?).
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